2. Sec. 4 “Roaring Twenties”
Timeline May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became 1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean – greatest hero of the 1920s.

3. Social & culture Changes
Women
– 19th Amendment - women vote
Women worked outside the home, began professional careers, ran for political office
- flappers symbolized the “new
woman”

4. Social & Cultural Change
Mass Media – forms of communication
Motion picture industry in Hollywood became one of countries leading businesses
Mah-jongg, flagpole sitting, dance marathons
Jazz – new kind of music with roots in the South in African American work songs & in African music – blend of ragtime and blues

5. Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was the burst of creativity during the 1920s in the African American writers & artists who gathered in Harlem, an African American section of New York City.
Langston Hughes – Harlem Renaissance poet
James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen & Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem Renaissance writers

6. Other writers were questioning American ideals
Other writers were questioning American ideals. Disappointed with American values & in search of inspiration they settled in Paris. These writers were called expatriates.
F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway were famous expatriate writers.
Sinclair Lewis & Sherwood Anderson were writers who stayed in the U.S. & wrote about life in America.

7. Clash of cultures
1919 – 18th Amendment ratified which established prohibition.
The continuing demand for alcohol led to widespread lawbreaking.
Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the 21st Amendment.

8. Nativism
The anxieties many native-born Americans felt about the rapid changes in society contributed to an upsurge of nativism.
With this renewed nativism came a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
Congress responded to nativist fears by passing the Emergency Quota Act.

9. The Scopes Trial
Another cultural clash involved the role of religion in society.
John Scopes deliberately broke Tennessee state law against teaching evolution so a trial could test its legality. Lawyers were Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan.

10. Election of 1928
1927 Pres. Coolidge shocked everyone by announcing he would not run for a second full term.
Herbert Hoover declared his candidacy for the Republic nomination.
Hoover won the 1928 election by a landslide due to Republican prosperity of the 1920s & prejudice against democratic candidate Smith.